Twitter Patter: #AskBoris, Christmas and Lord Sugar

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Following 'difficult' Twitter Q&As from the likes of British Gas and Herman Van Rompuy recently, we've now reached such a state of moral panic that any Q&A that prompts a negative question or a bit of abuse is immediately branded a social media disaster. So it was with Boris Johnson's #AskBoris efforts on Monday.

The BBC reported that the hashtag had been 'hijacked'. It really hadn't. Yes, there was some abuse, but find me any high-profile individual, let alone a politician, to have ever done such a Q&A without getting at least a degree of that. And as for some of the 'sillier' questions, people ask those knowing very well that Boris will answer them.

A year after the phenomenon that was the Essex Lion, this week saw more wildlife on the loose in Essex. This time, five wolves. #EssexWolf predictably soon starting trending on Twitter.

Meanwhile, Christmas now trends on Twitter almost constantly, and can presumably be expected to continue to do so for the next month.

Elsewhere, we enjoyed this:

This:

And this:

On the bad side...

Much abuse intended for @Ian_Watkins, the Lostprophets singer who this week pleaded guilty to child sex offences, went to @IanWatkins, an entirely innocent chap from Peterborough. He patiently deflected most of it, but some of it was beyond denseness...

Lord Sugar - The former Tottenham Hotspur chairman remains a huge Spurs fan. Which is fine, right up until the point that he tries to reinvent himself as some sort of social media-based vidiprinter, providing live goal updates during their matches - as if there are no other accounts offering exactly that service in altogether more punctual and enlightening manners.